Fernando de Rojas

Fernando de Rojas (La Puebla de Montalbán, Toledo, Spain, c. 1465/73 – Talavera de la Reina, Toledo, Spain, April 1541) is a Spanish author and dramatist, known for his only surviving work, La Celestina (originally titled Tragicomedia de Calisto y Melibea), first published in 1499.

Rojas writes La Celestina while still a student.

After graduating he practices law and is not known to have written any further literary works, although La Celestina achieves widespread success during his lifetime.

Despite difficulties with the Inquisition on account of his Jewish descent, Rojas is a successful lawyer and becomes mayor of Talavera de la Reina, where he lives for the last three decades of his life.

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